"The benefits of antidepressants is based upon just one probability, one which has been debunked as non-scientific by many academics. The risks of taking antidepressants are reported side effects, including self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide completion. And we are **still** told by Dr's, pharmaceutical companies and medicine regulators that the benefits outweigh the risks. This is an incorrect statement.."

~ Bob Fiddaman

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

ADHD Drugs Make Studying Easier Claims

UBC psychiatrist Dr. Derryck Smith by a reflecting pond near his home in Vancouver on Saturday, April 09, 2011. Smith says there might actually be benefits to society in allowing doctors to prescribe such medications such as Adderall and Ritalin purely to make people smarter.

Photograph by: Les Bazso, PROVINCE

It would appear that cognitive enhancing drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall are now been promoted by University of British Columbia psychiatry professor, Dr. Derryck Smith.

University students using “smart drugs” to help them with their studies would be better off having them prescribed by their doctors, says a University of B.C. psychiatry professor.

The article goes on to claim that Dr. Derryck Smith said the drugs make studying easier and the results better.

Smith is the Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist in Chief at Children's & Women's Health Centre of B.C. He is also a clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also one of the heads of CADDAC [Centre for ADHD Awareness Canada]